1 Corinthians 11:28
But let no man take of the bread and the cup without testing himself.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 26:2Put me in the scales, O Lord, so that I may be tested; let the fire make clean my thoughts and my heart.
Haggai 1:5For this cause the Lord of armies has said, Give thought to your ways.
Zechariah 7:5Say to all the people of the land and to the priests, When you went without food and gave yourselves to grief in the fifth and the seventh months for these seventy years, did you ever do it because of me?
1 Corinthians 11:31But if we were true judges of ourselves, punishment would not come on us.
Galatians 6:4But let every man make test of his work, and then will his cause for glory be in himself only, and not in his neighbour.
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 11:24-34
Design of the Lord's Supper. ( a. d. 57.) 23 For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread: 24 And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. 25 After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. 26 For as often as… Read the whole commentary →